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"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe From The Maxims and Reflections.  This is it, isn't it? When presented with the uncertainty of lif...

"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter, do they?" - Virginia Woolf Sometimes we can all use a little perspecti...

"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me." - Charlotte Brontë Despite being the daughters of a vicar and growing up in a parsonage, Anne, Charlotte, ...

  "They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The roaring twenties, when booze was illegal and...

"Once you learn to read you will be forever free." - Frederick Douglass No author better captured or more fully experienced the importance of lear...

"There is no denying the wild horse in us." - Virginia Woolf   She’s all poise and pearls, but look closer: Behind the passive exterior, a passio...

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Edgar Allan Poe Sanity and insanity reversed. The illustration depicts a man seeking ...

"I am half agony, half hope." - Jane Austen The letter has arrived! But what fortune will it bring? What word? Happiness or ruin? • 11x14 inch ...

"Invention does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos." - Mary Shelley From the introduction to her novel Frankenstein. We respo...

"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds." - George Eliot From her novel Adam Bede. SPECIAL OFFERAny 3 prints for $48 (regularly ...

"Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story." - F. Scott Fitzgerald Truth may be stranger than fiction, but let's face it: fiction is fun. Re...

"The sea is big and old." - Ernest Hemingway Too simple for your taste? Perhaps he should have gone with "the sea is boundless and ancient," or "t...

There's a reason Austen commands such an important place in the literary pantheon. She is a master at balancing high and low humor, ideals and iron...

"He tried not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." - Leo Tolstoy This is one of the ...

"Enter pirates." - Shakespeare Huh? Why, of everything the Bard wrote would we pick this absurd stage direction?  Because it was there, my friend....

"I have nothing to declare except my genius." - Oscar Wilde Wilde is reported to have dropped this zinger upon arrival in the New York Customs Hou...

"Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring - truth." - Virginia Woolf, Monday or Tuesday From her first sh...

"I would rather have nothing but tea. " - Jane Austen Pray, coffee drinkers, do not trifle with a connoisseur of the finer beverage, lest you fin...

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." - William Shakespeare In Shakespeare’s plays, the rich and powerful are sometimes clueless, and the penn...

"What am I doing here in this endless winter?" - Franz Kafka From his short, surrealist story, A Country Doctor. Although he died over a century a...

"Run mad as often as you choose" - Jane Austen Everyone needs to cut loose once in a while, to throw off the restraints (in this case, some seriou...

"I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am. " - Jane Austen This sharp, ironic voice came so easily to Austen that it pe...

"If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. " - Jane Austen This oft-quoted line comes from Northa...

"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. " - Jane Austen Uttered by Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth Bennett in Pride ...